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ing of the year on Jan. 20 at which it was voted 
that the committee on the Ivers-Whitney-Adams 
Fund be requested to secure lecturers and fix 
the dates for a series of meetings with lectures. 
Lectures were given as follows: Dr. Barton 
W. Evermann, of the Bureau of Fisheries, on 
“With Pack Train to the Tip-Top of the United 
States in Quest of the Golden Trout”; by Dr. 
Wm. T. Flornaday, Director of the New York 
Zoological Society of New York, on "Big Game 
in the District of Columbia”; and by Frank M. 
Chapman, of the American Museum of Natural 
History, on “Bird Life of the Bahamas.” Sixty- 
eight new members joined during the year and 
three life memberships were arranged. 
The propagation work of the year has neces¬ 
sarily been confined to the furnishing of finger- 
ling trout to all persons who saw fit to send in 
orders for them at a nominal price ($8 per thou¬ 
sand). Fifty-six thousand five hundred fish were 
sent to the following places: Croton, Dedham, 
Milford, Wellesley, Weston, Georgetown, Read¬ 
ing, Rockland, Hingham, Williamstown, Hudson, 
Webster, Leominster, Wellfleet, Springfield, Bil¬ 
lerica, Petersham, Fitchburg, Falmouth. The 
last named assignment was purchased by the 
selectmen of the town. The Fitchburg Sports¬ 
men’s Club placed the largest order, which was 
for 15,000. They were planted in a dozen or 
more streams. The Leominster Club received 
4,000. In all cases, so far as heard from, the 
fish proved satisfactory. The efforts of this as¬ 
sociation for the past twelve years to have the 
trout streams stocked effectively from year to 
year by the State have met with but meagre 
success. The late Captain Collins inaugurated 
the plan of rearing the fry to the size of finger- 
lings at Sutton, but until the present year the 
average annual output from that source has 
been only about 60,000, less than one-fifth of 
what were essential to keep the fishing up to a 
fair standard of excellence. Again, by what 
seems an unwise change in the sawdust law, it 
has been deprived of at least 99 per cent, of its 
vitality, so that in the report of the commis¬ 
sioners for 1908 I am able to find but one case 
of conviction for sawdust pollution. The con¬ 
ditions in Massachusetts go far to substantiate 
a statement recently made by Dr. C. H. Towns¬ 
end, director of the New York Aquarium, that 
“the work of improving conditions” (as regards 
stream pollution) “cannot be left with the courts 
and the fishery officers.” And he adds with 
great pertinence, “The latter are in some cases 
at least dominated by the very interests which 
cause the trouble.” Henry H. Kimball. 
Long Island Duck Laws. 
At a meeting of the Long Island Game Pro¬ 
tective Association, held in New York city, Jan. 
13, at the rooms of the New York Board of 
Trade and Transportation, steps were taken to 
introduce at Albany a bill for the better protec¬ 
tion of ducks and brant. 
The present law permits the killing of ducks 
from Sept. 15 to Jan. 1, but wild ducks may be 
in the possession of market men up to March 1. 
The brant season continues to March 1, and it 
is a matter of common report that ducks and 
brant are shot and sent to New York during the 
whole of the brant season. It is said that last 
season one battery, tied out for brant, killed dur¬ 
ing the day sixty-five ducks and no brant. The 
Long Island Game Protective Association pro¬ 
poses to ask the Legislature to enact that the 
period in which ducks may be possessed be 
limited to the open season, and that the brant 
season be shortened so as to coincide with the 
open season for ducks. 
The New York State Forest, Fish and Game 
League and the State Forest, Fish and Game 
Commission take the same grounds as the Long 
Island Association. Chief Protector Burnham 
has written the association supporting their views 
and declaring that there should be ten times as 
many game protectors on Long Island as the 
State at present furnishes. 
The executive committee of the association 
was appointed a legislative committee to accom¬ 
plish the introduction of the bill. The members 
are Lindsay Russell, Ottomar H. Van Norden, 
Andrew D. Meloy Beverly W. Robinson and 
Edward T. McLaughlin. 
The association intends to devote the proceeds 
from its membership dues to hiring more pro¬ 
tectors. There are about 120 members now, and 
the expectation is that this number will be in¬ 
creased four or five times. William K. Vander¬ 
bilt, August Belmont, W. Bayard Cutting, Arte- 
mas Ward, Clarence H. Mackay, E. D. Morgan, 
Theron G. Strong, Edwin A. Cruikshank and 
John Alvin Young are members of the association. 
The officers were re-elected. They are: Lind¬ 
say Russell, President; W. M. K. Olcott, An¬ 
drew D. Meloy, Beverly W. Robinson, Vice- 
Presidents; Ottomar H. Van Norden, Treasurer; 
Edward T. McLaughlin, Secretary. 
Brown’s Tract Guides Association. 
Utica, N. Y., Jan. 14 .— Editor Forest and 
Stream: This association held its annual meet¬ 
ing and banquet at Old Forge last night, the at¬ 
tendance being large. About twenty new mem¬ 
bers were enrolled. Officers for the ensuing 
year were elected as follows: President, Well¬ 
ing Weedmark, Old Forge; Vice-President, 
Philip Christy, Old Forge; Secretary and Treas¬ 
urer, A. M. Church, Boonville; Executive Com¬ 
mittee, Frank Yule, Old Forge; E. J. Van 
Arnam, Inlet; Charles D. Wood, Inlet; George 
Villiers, Old Forge; William Stell, White Lake; 
Richard Crego, Boonville; D. L. Smith, Petrie’s 
Corners. 
The annual report of Secretary and Treasurer 
A. M. Church was in part as follows: The 
Adirondacks are annually becoming more and 
more a summer resort and less of a sporting 
country. The fishermen and hunters of the old 
sort do not take kindly to railroads and steam¬ 
boats and have found places in Maine or Canada 
where game is plenty and where steam and “put- 
boats,” grease and coal smoke neither cover the 
water nor blacken the foliage. Our expenses 
for the past year have been $378.62; receipts, 
$390.80. Balance on hand, $178.51. 
We have always been against deer hunting in 
November. It is the height of their mating 
season. The bucks are heedless of everything 
else. They neither feed nor rest, and moving 
about most of the time are easily shot. They 
rapidly lose flesh at this season and are less 
agreeable for food than at other times. The 
law protects trout on their spawning beds. Why 
not apply the same rule here? Never has there 
been such a rush to the hunting grounds as this 
year and too many deer are killed. 
We received from the State and planted in 
different streams about 10,000 brook trout finger- 
lings, 10,000 rainbow trout fry and upward of 
20,000 lake trout fry. There was also planted 
in the lakes of the Chain a quantity of whitefish 
fry and also of the frostfish. 
We lost by death during the year three ac¬ 
tive members and two associate members. 
The committee on resolutions presented the 
following which were adopted: That it is the 
sense of this association and meeting that it is 
the imperative duty of the State to take such 
action as is within its power to check denuda¬ 
tion by the purchase of forest lands in the Adi¬ 
rondacks and to prevent the cutting of any tim¬ 
ber on virgin forest lands belonging to the State 
in the Adirondacks; that the closed season for 
deer should be from Nov. 1 to the 15th day of 
September, both inclusive; to prohibit any one 
person from killing more than one deer each 
season; to give residents of other States who 
own real property in this State and upon which 
they had paid taxes prior to Jan. 1, 1908, a hunt¬ 
ing license on the same terms and prices as if 
they were residents. W. E. Wolcott. 
Hunting. 
San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 10 .— Editor Forest 
and Stream: Duck and quail hunting is still 
occupying the attention of devotees of the shot¬ 
gun, and they are making the most of the sea¬ 
son that is now approaching an end. Birds are 
quite plentiful and are now to be found on al¬ 
most all the hunting grounds, having been scat¬ 
tered by the heavy storms that have been pre¬ 
vailing of late. At Los Banos ducking has been 
very fine and there has been no difficulty in se¬ 
curing good bags, both in the club preserves and 
on the outside. Geese are also plentiful there 
and hunters are welcomed by the farmers, as 
the birds have been the cause of much damage 
to growing grain. 
In the vicinity of Tulare Lake there has also 
been some fine sport with geese, and more of 
these birds are to be found there now than has 
been the case in ten years or longer. Flood 
waters are now pouring into the lake and the 
body of water has reached such size that it is 
very likely that many ducks and other water- 
fowl will remain there and breed during the 
summer months. On the flats of San Pablo Bay 
there is some very fine sport being enjoyed at 
the present time, and canvasbacks are very much 
in evidence. The birds are in splendid condi¬ 
tion, and limit bags that have been weighed have 
averaged about two pounds to the bird. 
At Joyce Island, Patrick Calhoun has a large 
preserve, and the street railroad magnate has 
been spending much time there this winter. 
Cold weather in the San Joaquin Valley has kept 
many hunters from making the trip to that dis¬ 
trict, but birds are still plentiful there. Quail 
shooting in Marin county closed on Dec. 15, but 
there have been several violations of the law. 
There is a question as to the validity of county 
ordinances, but this has been practically settled 
by a decision of the Third Appellate Court, and 
the announcement is made that violations of the 
law will be vigorously punished. A. P. B. 
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